Looking for something to inspire your local choir or choral society? Our extensive range of choral repertoire includes works for Mixed Choir, Male Voice Choir, Female Voice Choir, Children’s & Youth Choirs, and Senior’s Choir, singing a Capella, with piano accompaniment, and with various other ensembles up to full orchestra.
Choral singing began to take form in the 9th & 10th Centuries, with the unison Gregorian Chant or Plain Chant. From the early Renaissance period, through composers like Palestrina , di Lasso and William Byrd true polyphonic choral music blossomed, and crescendo-ed through to a wonderful climax with Thomas Tallis’ Spem in alium for 40 parts, divided into 8 choirs.
As the form developed through the Renaissance into the Baroque period, composers such as Bach, Telemann and Händel gave the choir more and more autonomy, and through early operas and oratorios, married solo voices, choirs and orchestras together, to create these new musical forms, and inspired audiences with combinations of colours and sounds they had never before experienced.
Although there were many operas and oratorios written in the Classical period, sacred music also took a prominent role in shaping the development of choral music. While the chorus became a very useful tool on stage, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven composed many Masses, Requiems, Te Deums and Anthems to help brighten the world of church music, and uplift the hearts and souls of the congregation.
As opera continued to expand and stretch dramatic boundaries, choral music of the Romantic period was characterised by choral motets and anthems, and the oratorio grew into an even more varied and contrasting form. The oratorios Elijah and Paul are particularly noteworthy, since despite using Sacred themes, through the various musical facets at Mendelssohn’s disposal, they began to take on a much more operatic narrative. This can also be seen in the Requiems of Brahms and Verdi, where the choir itself, along with the orchestra, lead the dramatic storytelling.
Through the 20th Century, composers such as Ralf Vaughan Williams, Anton Webern, Arnold Schönberg, Benjamin Britten and Edward Elgar composed extensively for varying choral forces. Through these composers and many others, we begin to see choirs being tested and stretched, both technically and dramatically, and being pushed out of their comfort zone in order to inspire, shock and entice the audience. Works like Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius and Schönberg’s Friede auf Erden made a huge impact on the choral landscape.
In the modern era, new choral genres such as Gospel Choir, Pop Ensembles and Jazz & Swing emerged. Composers like John Rutter, Karl Jenkins, Bob Chilcott and Andrew Lloyd Webber have become very popular.
(VoiceTrax CD)
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 899403
Discovery Level 2
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 806904
ShowTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 559304
Psalm 51
Karfreitags- und Bußtagsmusik
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 187984
Offertory for the Easter Sunday
Sacred music from Salzburg
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 186729
Kantate für Kinder
for: Children's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 185030
Musik Aus Ostbayern 60 B
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 183605
Kantate für Kinder
Der Kinderchor
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 180264
Kantate zum 1. Pfingsttag
C-Dur BWV 172 (1714)
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 178862
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 178273
Requiem in F
for: Mixed choir, organ [piano]
Score
Item no.: 178174
op. 89 Nr. 1
Partitur
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 170885
aus: Cantiones Sacrae
for: Mixed choir (SATB); double bass, organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 170316
Romanze im Volkston
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 169053
Version Hellmann/Glöckner
Edition published in cooperation with the Bach-Archiv Leipzig, reconstructed version (2001)
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben Urtext
for: 3 soloists (SAT), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 163377
for: Women's choir (SAA), piano
Score
Item no.: 162414
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 159627
Psalm 109 (110)
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 156621
aus: Responsoria in Parasceve MH 277,4
Urtext-Ausgabe
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 155170
aus: Responsoria in Parasceve MH 277,1
Urtext-Ausgabe
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 155123
Heitere Tiergeschichten zum Singen. Sie können eine Musikstunde oder Chorprobe auflockern oder im Konzert auch als Zugabeeinfach Spaß machen.
for: Children's choir (1–3 parts), piano [keyboard], rhythm group
Choir score
Item no.: 231483
Singspiel für Kinderchor, Instrumente und Gemeinde
über das bekannte Lied von Paul Gerhardt "Geh aus, mein Herz und suche Freud"
for: Children's choir (1 voice), the parish, instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 231462
Ein Singspiel über 1. Mose 3
Leichtes Singspiel zu biblischem Text für den Gottesdienst von Kindern und Erwachsenen
for: Soloists, children's choir, keyboard
Lyric book
Item no.: 231451
Ein Singspiel nach Motiven der Noahgeschichte aus 1. Mose 6-9
Leichtes Singspiel zu biblischem Text für den Gottesdienst von Kindern und Erwachsenen
for: Soloists, children's choir, narrator, keyboard; melodic instruments, rhythm instruments ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 231441
Ein Singspiel über Johannes 11,1-45
Leichtes Singspiel zu biblischem Text für den Gottesdienst von Kindern und Erwachsenen
for: Soloists, children's choir, keyboard
Score
Item no.: 231401
Kleine Kantate für 1-stimmigen Kinderchor
for: Children's choir [voice (soprano)], 2 recorders (SA/SS), organ
Set of parts (Wind instruments)
Item no.: 231364
Menschliche Froschballade
for: Children's choir (SA)
Choir score
Item no.: 231272
Zehn Sätze für Kinderchor
for: Children's choir, instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 231213
Kleine Kinderkantate von der Arche Noah
for: Children's choir, instruments
Instrumental score percussion
Item no.: 231151
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 328526
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 322100
Contemporary Church Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 315566
Sing- und Spielmusik für die Jugend
for: Mixed choir [children's choir] (3 voices), string quartet
Score
Item no.: 103184
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 162314
for: Mixed choir (SAB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 3311
aus "D. M. Luthers und anderer vornehmen geistreichen und gelehrten Männer geistliche Lieder", 1653
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins [treble recorders], basso continuo
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 2771
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 343997
Oratorio in three parts in the arrangement of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. New Mozart Edition (NMA). X/28/1,2
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 339137
Chor der Trojaner u. Kretenser aus "Idomeneo" für gem Chor Orchester (Klavier)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 308357
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 297665
für Soli, Chor und Orchester,
Vervollständigung bearbeitet von Franz Xaver Süßmayr
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 223739
Choralmotette
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 283409
4. Die Schnupftabakdose "Es war eine Schnupftabakdose"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280547
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 273014
for: Male choir (TBarB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 255464
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 245393
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 838285
für Soli, Chor, 2 Trompeten oder Hörner und Pauken ad lib., 2 Violinen und Basso continuo
aus den Vesperae solennes de Dominica op. 9
kritisch revidierte Neuausgabe
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 670831
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